I must be doing something wrong. I tried to edit a simple 20 second video in MSP 15 and it took me nearly two hours to get laughable results at best.

I took a phone video of my brother in law's 1 year old throwing a basketball about 1 foot up in an attempt to get it into the 10' basket hoop. Immediately, I thought of something that would be funny. i imported the video into VMS 15. I played the video up to the final frame of the ball going up. My plan was to export the frame to a still, go in Photoshop and save the ball and the and the background as separate stills. After I did that, I split the video at that last frame. I placed the still there. I placed the ball on top of that. It took forever to have that ball go up to the basket hoop and drop back down.Probably had to do it twenty times.

I selected the ball still picture. I clicked the pan crop tool. I see the ball. I make it smaller to match the size of the ball in the video. The problem is keying the ball in different positions. I have no idea where I am. I do not see the background still to know where I am on the timeline. I had to make guesses all over the place. How is anyone else dealing with this? I must be missing something because the way I am doing it is insane. I have done super high end video montages that took me over 100 hours using Speed Edit, which would have taken me no more than 2 minutes for this video if I still used it.

Please tell me the secret of controlling movement of an overlayed picture. I searched everywhere and found nothing. If there is no secret, I am bailing out at this point because this makes editing a terrible experience, especially when the process completely kills the creative process.